Sentence for stretch | Use stretch in a sentence

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• He was obliged to stretch out his hand to Temple. (10)
• It was as lofty a stretch as her nature could strain to. (10)
• But passing into that darker stretch, he again stood still. (8)
• It was the greatest stretch of forbearance I could practise. (4)
• I stretch out my hand after one of those blue blossoms, and know my guilt. (12)
• The canoes were too small for us; we must be out and stretch ourselves on shore. (2)
• A line of arc-lamps seemed to stretch into infinity, but the houses looked empty. (12)
• The business of our modern world is to open heart and stretch out arms to numbers. (10)
• And he saw her suddenly stretch out her hands to him, and withdraw them to her breast. (8)
• The horror and distress you were involved in, the stretch of mind, the wear of spirits! (4)
• He has never been permitted to remain at Milan longer than a couple of days at a stretch. (10)
• The dark hills and clouds curtaining the run of the stretch of fields relieved her sight. (10)
• Fifty paces below, a column of opal smoke had begun to wreathe and stretch a languid flag. (10)
• If ultimately she is cast out and overthrown, she can stretch a finger at gaps in our ranks. (10)
• But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief. (4)
• Mr. Hurst had therefore nothing to do, but to stretch himself on one of the sofas and go to sleep. (4)
• The greater length of the service, however, I admit to be sometimes too hard a stretch upon the mind. (4)
• After a sharp stretch, the horse fell to a canter, and then trotted slowly, and allowed Polly to finish. (10)
• It was a stretch of his patience to hear himself addressed on a family matter; but he was naturally courteous. (10)
• Mrs. Culling he thanked fervently for a wonderful stretch of generosity in lending her presence to the madcaps. (10)
• To imagine, invent, and believe, were spontaneous with Beppo when has practical sagacity was not on the stretch. (10)
• And suddenly Keith saw her stretch out her arms, and lift her face with a look of ecstasy, and Laurence starting forward. (8)
• Vittoria still refused to give him any promise, and finally, on a solitary stretch of the road, he appealed to her mercy. (10)
• The consciousness of all who knew her personally was at stretch how to behave if they came within reach of her in going out. (8)
• He soon had the paper out at a square stretch, and sprightly information for the other two was visible in his crowing throat. (10)
• Imagine the behaviour of people round a slain tiger that does not compel them to fly, and may yet stretch out a dreadful paw! (10)
• He leaned on an elbow to listen; the slide threatened him, and he resumed his full stretch, determined to take her for a dream. (10)
• Refusing the company of a groom, she made her way towards the stretch of high moor where she had ridden with Courtier a year ago. (8)
• But in its place he saw the sheer stretch of pitiless wall, the miserable figures on the iron ladder being swept into the flames. (13)
• Do but stretch a hand to the touch of earth in you, and you spring upon combative manhood again, from the basis where all are equal. (10)
• The mighty breakfast had given Braintop intolerable desire to stretch his limbs by the sounding shore, and enjoy life in semi-oblivion. (10)
• And he avoided seeing her stretch her arms out and spread the fingers, as an angry cat will stretch and spread its toes. (8)
• For we passed through a stretch of blighted country, sparsely covered with brush, but handsomely enough diversified with factory chimneys. (2)
• Between them, in the sun-shotten shade, lie the quiet streets, whose gravelled stretch is probably never cleaned because it never needs cleaning. (9)
• Besides the gauze veil, there was no preparation except in the stretch of black drapery which hid the book-shelves at the farther wall of the library. (9)

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